The Sun. — London, England, 1808-10-22 00:00:00

4:yIERICAN PAPElt,t'. NEW.VORK, " France wants Money, and we must give zt. The to liowitig:siateu - k•lit, in tf,is topic, is taken from the United States Gazette of Tues,lay evening. Edifor s. , ys teat the fal . , here . detailed are derived trnm a source. winch 'nay be relied upon, as the D mi , crats themselves would acknowledge were we to Inttntion mames.:. Some time in the winter of 1804-5, 'TALLEY RAND and General ARIISTRoNG weie seated loge in a quiet corner, smoking se4ars and arranging the destin;es of Europe and .America. TALLEY IUSD ,spolco-, of the iintnense phins of NAroLgoN, acid of the rieres ,, Vy of money to accomplish them. Wh en / he had stipposed that he had prepared the mind of our. Atnbassador to enter into his views, lie told hi, n ihat the friends of France should assist her; end that it would be their interest so do so—' Ski"; • said he, the Emperor and King, my. Master, Wants two miliions ot dollars tor the ensuing campaign, The United States and Spain have been about Cie boundaries of Louisiana, That - dispute is easily accominodated. If your Government us two millions of dollars, you shall have what botitr daries to Louisiana you please—Spain has nothing Co'. say to it.' " GeneralAamsTaoNG listen e d With anxious attemi tion, and when TALLEYRAND hid explained him self, he threw his seg or w and m ;tit violence into the fir er tends made this reply Sir, if y o u r Emperor in to make such a denidnd upon the United Braces, he must find sonie of her channel of count-lu b rteets disgrace my se lf s and country y beit)v the bearer of such a degrading proposition.' The conversation then closed; but TALLEY SAND did not abandon his design. Finding that AamsTanNo was stubborn, he received the com. niand BIJ!)NAPARTE to make the proposition dire to the President of the United States, which was Peci;rdittgly done: When Mr. JEFFERSON received ne sent for Mr. GALLATIN, and communicated "he inteiligcence to hint Sir,' said he, '.the trione)- iTIC,St be sent. Can you not place 2,000,000 of d at my disposal in France ?'.-- , Mr". GAL LATIN replied, that there was no law authorising. the 2 1 ) ProPhltion. this 119.0,!istac The' Pre s id ent; h o ' .vever, cons id ere d , .-' Sir,' be Serit--..it is w le--- said he, the more most anted itnnied ately ; I will hatard iaftei t, and trust to congress to ma k e t h e appropr i at i on i ,Ait 4 r. GALLATIN, however, was not less stubborn than GeLeral Aasts'rttoNG, and indig nantly replied that he would nci ay,' othing to do with it. The President girt , Seht to Mr. MADIS and between them it . ibis greed, that, Hader the -osien sible appearance of burchasing the Floridas, Gm. greys slitinld be prev'ailed on to grant the t wro tuil line Of dollars to France. Mr: MADISON inamecti ately.commenced his operationS: He sent for an in -41-Ititial Member Of Congress, and reque*ted hint to introduc,,flie Bill , The Member positively re f use d, and in c , .lis'equ el i c o wa s immediately denounced ;laid !bed in the Papers of the AdoninistrAtion.—' u t'. NiAliiSoir then took an i dpportunity df sound ing Mr. R ANDuLPH Si r, ' sa id he; France Dwants money, and we must give it.' Mr. RAN however; was stubbcirn; aqd Mr. RANDoLPH Vas deno,wced and prosnribed. The Bill was final 'Y passed in secret, after a violent opposition, and it to as known Iti Preid at it Was in the hand-writing' of •i eut luousell, and introduced into the-House, by one of the back -stair Gentlemen, who ditheult • found no y accomitiodatin4 his disposition to views f M " ra r. -11 ' 1 '"a 5 u:s, Mr. MAzilsoN; LEYRAND. , • . " France nas Ships and we lutve men,“_.bn this ttubje6t, the same Pa rhe ni per g i ves t h e f o ll ow i ng state -It contains some particUlars which we have not before s e e n . ' It has been repeatedly d e ni e d in the democraticprints that Mr: JEFFEtiiSON, in a conversati o n with 9l . lt w° r.esPettable Ge nt l emen, declared that the peop l a t hi' OPuntry Wished for a war with gngland, add uPon bei:ig asked by what means we t,? eirryshould be able 1 'AI "ich a war, replied in the words which we aav e PI ! , ..cl at the . head .of this article: It is .. il a .vver , ; ( i a l" Illt auc'l ii ccint ersatioo really took r f ? e, al: " we are .tow enabled to slate the substanes. f)il i tl')( t, '" e a. ,. (lll 'oritY of a Getitlemati who cannot be tn.sta,sett,ano wh o is iiica . p.ible of intentionalillii... repteS,2titatioti. I,7'e believe that the very word of the President are preserved, acid cone ently challenge an y st ot . his champions to deny the accuracy of the tented the Gentlemen who Were coll.:. ti ; -l e't ' ln fife Conver„tion have related it in the sa:_ne, 2:titter; both are known to'the Editor of this Ga ulle ' ,, :ii n d qle characteri Of both are such that 110 '''io ventor e to call in vestion the veracity of either. ' The statemen t is tfs fOIIOWS. it) july. t 8 .07, soon after the tinfortu na fe, an d • t° us, disgracefui atfuir of the Cifesapeake, a c i t i zen .01 Georgetown,- and a friend of his, a merchant from London., paid a morning visit to the Prsident of the !Tutted St a t e i. T he latter was intidduced by Vae former as a Gentleman residing in England; a Partne r in a mercantile housed in Philsdelpiii,t; and 4 dative Anierican, extensively engaged in the Arne hijeaa tr a d e : The Ptesident introduc e d a conversation La Y Com plai o i ng bi tterly of the tetent outrages neon the Chesapeake ;—:and the general conduct of the /I - riti'h Government towards this country: ‘‘ What 1 : 7 1 1 ° he done? (a.,ked the citizen of Georgetown, , Ind 1 l i v ,i a „ s an old acquaintance of Mr. JzFv • Easoti, „iii at ' ,, -- " er „ v ed with him many year's ago in the Le :: f r „ -r e °r 'Virginia') What can we do, ,Sir ?" peo p l e of t hi s cuLa i try, " replied. the Presi 4ent' " roost the People, Sir, will fi g h t the English 110 st severely. T hey are roused, ,and there will be to ditticul;y in prevailing on them to take u p a n us ; w iPe off this stain. , The merchant, who felt chagrined g this grOss' v iolation of decnruni and the rights of hospitality, °l)serve(l, perhaps' too tartly for the irritated nerves of 4 ti ,'e l'iuibpher, " But, Sir, what will you fight `' l e znglish with ? You have no Ships—'4o4 Cannot get at iliem. • they will not come here. • How will your fi ghting people meet these offenders i"—This was too much for presidential patience to bear " F RANCE HAS SHIPS AND WE HAVE EN," exclaimed the man of the people, with evident marks of angry irritation." lie u this s tatement, whi c h ma y be implicitly ire= ...d upon, be w e ll considered in conneClion with '11.• IYlAnisorr's declaratiotithat France Wants money and we *ust give it I.S.EFANCE Or GERON.4. • A eorre& statement of the,gallari i t defence of 02- rona has, • we believe, nof,yet .been laid before the public,, This City is about thirty mile's. to the.Spwh of Rosas, and is rather strongly- fortified.. ; It WAS at : tacked same time since, by a body of 7000 French and Italians. A number of : persons were under arms in the different 'fortresses round the town, but no one would iietiture to take a leading part, and cli : reet the operation of the whole. Udder these cir 7. cumstanees, Capt. OTwAY, of the Montagt.a., Since ' promoted to the Malta, who was at that time ly ing off Rosas, determined to proceed to Gerona ; iied to his exertion's tEe successful defence of the pl ice is, i we have reason to think; principally to be ascribed. In Gefona, Ladies of the first consequence Worked in the trenches ; and in t h e different engagements • which took place in the neighbourhood• the female peasants exposed themselves to the hottest fire, that they might supply their husbands and brothers with ' bread and wine, perfeelly regardless of destruelion. Even the Priests engaged in the most aciive duty. Captain OrwAY saw many of them, while he was in the batteries at Gerona, standing fire with deter mined courage. Nothing could be more giatifying than Captain ()TWAY'S reception by the inhabitants of this city. Thousands cheered bin on his arrival, and he was accommodated in a style of princely ms;= nificence at the public etpence. He received the : most flattering letters from the Junta of the province of Catalonia,'acknowledgiog his services in the moat grateful terms, with an assurance that " they will• for ever be engriven in fteir hearts ;" and that they had adopted-his plans, , :hich Ita.l been itttendcd with the,tiaost signal success. It Was felt in Cata lonia as a subject of astonishment, that &lONA PA RTE had not sent thither More troops from France ; and a persuasion prevailed that the Uncertain con.; tinnance of peace with Austria would probably de tain a large force 'win proceeding to Spain. It was at the same time discover e d that the French Ge nerals, instead of being actuated by a common in terest, were personally at variance, and employed in mutually lavishing abuses upon each other, arid in endeavouring to secure all such property, its it, the probable event of returning to France, the; might he enabled to catty with them. By wantonly bummgand destroying the horiseS of the defenceless inhabitants, tt ley made on t hem t lie most un tavotnaole i in pressions, and such is are calculattld to prove permanently inju rious to them, however lung th e y m a y rema i n i n t h e conetry. The mutual chssanstattion nrevailing among the French Generals was discovered ny tneir inter cepted cOrrespondence. Capt. OTWAY states, tied the hatred and inveteracy of the Catalonians against the French is noe to be described ; and that it the other Provinces in Spain were equally exasperated aglinst the enemy, there would scarcely exist the slightest chance of their uhinnue success. He tbued.the zeal. 6f the peasantry of so disinterested a nature,- that of the boo whom he daily employed in repairing .the fortress of Rosas, not one would accept of any re muneration. We are, however, under considerable apprehen sion that the Ca(alonians will be called upon for still greater exertions. From this province w e re c e i ve; in consequenc e o f it s geographical position, less fre quent information than from most of the others; but we know that the French are still in some force there, and it is to be lamented that the spirited and tiattiotic•etlbrts of the Patriots have not been equal to the great objea of expelling or annihilating them. /t is very desirable that the Patriots should, if possi ble, make one grand effort against their portitlious enemy before the arrival of the menaced reinforce ments ; for their embarrassments must be consi derably augmented it the reinforcements, arrive be fore the fate of the enemy within the country is .irr,t. trievably decided. The Spanish forces a, pear to have taken .advantageous positions ; for the French are evidently-so circumstanced as to be obliged to dis-' continue offensive operations. If they should receive a considerable augmentation of force, the season for . caution among the Patriots will have elapsed. They mast - either soon ad offensivt ly or retreat ; for their 24/airs have arrived at a crisis which admits of no other alternative. From the most recent incivements of the Spaniards; they appear theitiselves to be wily sensible of this necessity. In answer to questions t hit have been put taus by Several correipondents reipecting the legality of roast ing. coffee, we have ascertained, that there is no Aq Pirliatnent which forbids the roasting of coffee, by ,private petsutis for their own consumption. 'Married, on Thursday, at St. Martin's Cbut : ch, Colchester, by the Rev. Plikir BA ILES, Captain Cu ARLES Cli A ie . :4, R. N. and Gove rnor o f t h e R oya l Hospital at 1. - fa,lar, to Mrs. BROOKE, feliktt of the Rev. Joi n Mootts filidokE, Rector of Falki n gh arn and Ilelprinkhain, in the Country t>l Lincoln, and yot.riget daughter of the late Captain WILLIAmt JUDD, R. N. Miss LARKMAti, who has been engaged by M'CitE.Any Our the Manchester Theatie, posse,ise I,Oc:A powers that will soon enable her to reach the Landon boards.'---She wade Fier debut at Liverphol, where she, perfOrmed some time with considerable stiecess, and has since much increased her reputation at the Edinburgh Theatre. Thursday morning, at six o'clock,. a pitched battle Was fought in a field at Hoxton, between Joyce; a hackney-calchrnati; and Jones, a' Cooper, for five guineas. The Contest lasted about forty minutes, when JoneS received a violent blow, which broke his jaw -bone, and he was removed to the Hospital. A disorder among children, commonly called the croop, has of lale trien very prevalent-among them: We beg to name, for the information of parenti,' an effectual Nffiedy : the daughter of John Walker; Esq . . of Mile End, was severely attacked, and pro nounced irrecoverable by the medical' aid called in ; her father inimeiged her up to her chin in water as hot as she could bear it, and kept her in that state for a quarter of an hour, till' she nearly fainted, after` which f small Orli - On of rum and oil was' given her ; she was . then wrapped' in a blanket and put to bed-:—by which Means she Was pettedly re stored. On the disse6tion of children dying of this disorder, a thick glutinous natter has been found covering the lungs, which prevented due respiration. Yesterday morning between eleVen,and* twelve o'clock, a' tire broke out at a house in Whhe-horse court, Rose:nary-lane; which'Consurned part of the same with the furniture ,a eltilc ia the hotise pct i isited irfthe El ►l7el. ;I1 HISTORICAL ItECIPAL , . .of .TIIL tiimpAiGN OF BUONAPARTE INATALY„ THE I'EANS 1796 AND 1797. ATTLS OF VICO AND IbtOND,Cs.,l,t 1. EUONAPARrE, after describing the combat of seg o , as We have just seen ) quits at once the army of BiaAuLiab, to speak of his combats with the Sar 7 diuian artny, commanded by General Cow, aad of the uninterrupted series of viatciries obtained over it in -PiedmOnt, Ili' Vico, Mondoiii, Bete, C"_!erasco and Sossano. He finishes With the armistice which the I(iag of gardinia was obliged to conclude. Faithful to the promise which I have given, to speak only of what I saw, or was assured of by the, tiloAt indisputable testimony, I shall not follow ,Buomik- PAtti-a in his new career.. Employed in the army of BEA.uLtEup I was altogether s stranger to that of cow I shall, hOWever, take the liberty of refuting a fevir anecdotes, and of making a few observations on the recital which BuoNAPA ai't has given of his rapid progress, and continued triumphsovei - the Sar dinians, as well as on the armistice by whiCh they were followed. And:first, let us observe what BUONAPARTE says befoye,t ;;;oeaks of the battle of :..lOndovi. " The•9i3th" (of Gzfrminal, in their vile jargon, i. e: the ieth of April), at break of chy, General Sufi RUILIEK entered the town of Ceva,' and invested the Citadel, which was garrisoned by about seven hundred men. gut ,the battering artillery was not arrived; it could not follow the rapid march of our army across the mountains." Those who recoiled the manner in Which the, Ge nerals of the National Convention, and of the Ditec tory, announced the approaching reduction of a for tress, of vihich the Connnander bad been, bribed, Or of which the girrison was too feeble to resist, will be tempted to believe th,it the Citadel of Ceva surren dered itninediately after this dispatch of BooNA .. PARTE. But the truth is, Unit it never surrendered at all : it was one of the places put into the hands of the French, by the King of S.irdinia, as a pledge of the armistice which was Sighed. sonic time after wards ! Oil this point we halte the evidence of BuoNAPAtiTcniinself, who, in his letter •to the Direc tOry, writes thus : " Ott the loth of Floreal, blrii was put' into our hands, as well as the order,for. giving us possession of Tortoni': the day after, the Citadel of Cevd was also remitteStO us." Thus the Citadel of _Cora did not surrender, but was given up as a guaranty of the armistice, thirteen days after,BuoNAPALITE dediared that it had bee[ invested jut it is not even true that SVIIRURIER ever in vested the Citadel of Ceva on the 28th of Germinal : an anec,dOte, not a little curious, absolutely destroys the asset tint'. It is well deserving.of'a *in this narrative. The French army ; had not yet arrived within sight of Ceva, when General Ilusca sent to surnmon the Commander of the Citadel, on the part of the Ge- . ner,il of the French army, to surrender without de- , lay ; threatening to put the Garrison Tio the sword if. it persisted in its detenee and should afierWards find itb - eit obliged to sobaiit. This çommAnder was an old soldrer, who had learned his trade under the orders Of the famous CuA ELEIS . EMANIAL . 1.11. ;kid this was ►,is answer:— The. Citadel which your Commander in Chief " summonses une with so Much severity to sum ren-: " der, and that betore I haveeven . had the pleasure " of seeing the army to which I ati to submit, was " 'Confided to me by the Soveredi whoml have the " bottom to serve. I gave him my oath that I would " detend it to the last extrethity. Shall I now de " ecend to sully My grey hairs by the disgrace of a • " shameful surrender, without having discharged a " single piece of cannon ? I will defend it as long " as possible, and I give you my word of honour, that " I will blo' it into the air the moment rnY " means of defence ant exliau,tel Tuis is the only . aUswer which my honour diaates to,tde and I " will inake no other." I was informed of this sp i rited' answer by BEA'u himself, to whom the old Commander :im mediately dispatched if. What did ISLIONAPARTE He quitted CC6 without making any attack ; _on it, and prudently marched towarpi MondoVi, where the Sardinian army was poste:l,' Which, infinftely inferior to the Frei eh in numbers, ought Co have fallen haat: immediately on Piedmont. . . We say infinitely inferior, for, though the , commeneetnent of this' work, we reckoned' the Sir- . dinian aftny at 3'0,000 man, Cot.t.i had scarcely the half of tlretn'at Mondovi. The other hail was enifer the orders of the Duk - 'e frAorir, at 'present King of Sardinia, :And occupied in securing the passes of ATocenigo and of Savoy ';.• Coo.' had nof the smallest hope of re;:eiviug ny reinforcements from-1 'EAuxiiau, who 'had sent him word that . if he eould'hurniaintain himself three days at Mon . dai, he would =reit t'o' his assistance. The poSi- . lion of CoLtt was theiefore extremely unfavoitrahlii, inee had to cibrabat-the array BUON4*,- t P RTC, become now. arn2zrig:_y, forrnidable by its 1 recent jundicti with the division of Getir.ral Sts7 1 ' RURIEII._ ; " ' ' " r .••• • 1 It is not to Sc -I,VOndered at then that COLLIE shouid hastily retire_ From M.Oudovi, after .a ; slight cotntj.t, which ' BUONAFARTE decorates. with .. the dame of a battle, as he' does :the .ti itling advantag-p which be gaide,d. with .that of a vic7277 . . ~.It is still less to be wondere4atthat Cherasco should fall into the hands of the French, as, it did not cost Them the shglitest et-Ibn to .obtain i te .A n d y et Bt.; oNA PARI`E, in his dispatch to !the Pireatiry, where gives the account of the battle of Moaclovi, affirms that he fought with the greatest bravery, the enemy . &ink twenty to one! and, to angrrOpt his glory stilt more, he adds, that General Cotzt, i . .fler.resisting • two days with the utmost obstinacy, effe4ed_his re 7 treat cn the night of the 2d, to a position between Coui and Chetito. This last -town, situatedat. the confluence of the rivers &tura and Tanaro, was surrounded by strong ; bastions, and prote6ed by fortifications kept in excel-k let/t order ; but it had nbt a Governor that could b 4 compared/6 those of Cosseria and Dego, and still less to that oc-Ceva. The Governor ;ot Ch erasco • was a detestable cowar4, like the Coat Pi N'TO, who, at . the (:,,w:rrp - : the war, gave up the' ciiy of NlCe to the satlE-culgttes of Provence.; or the (.;11e- '- valier LA Tulin?, Wiio sold fortress of Taorgiu to the . French, and who, a few months afterwan's, • as the price of his infamy, was shot at Turin; by the sentence ofa C6uncil of War. - Cherasco"was given up by a sitnilar a& of treason. If the Reader refuses to believe me, because , ' was not on the spot, -Ile will, at. least, credit BUONA• PA RTE, Ikhd, in speaking of the battle of Mondavi, thus ek . prs.sses himself: . . " I sent General DUJA,RD, and My Aid-de-Camp .MAamor , :rr, Chief of the Battalion, and an Officer of distininislied merit, to reconnoitre the place, (thelasco) and arrange the baiteries: the enemy ffred a feW pieces of,Carinori*, and evacuated the.: town! We foond in it twenty-eight pieces of heavy. and immense magazines. -This Conquest 14 of the titintit importance to us:7 , It wds evacuation of this fa - treSs4 the Governor of which was a Swiss, that decided.. the Court of Tntin to e'i-der Count to enter immediately into a negotiation for pe;ce with BUO-: NAPART.E. The order was executed as Sootl 23 re ceived ; but upon the representation of BIiOr4APPITE, that the Directory had riot Autlioriiqd him . to 'con ., clude a peace, , antatniistite . 614 Ika . s : agreed salioiC, on the following conditions I. That the fortresses of Corii, Tortona, and Ceva, should be'pNeedvrtra depolit, in the !yaw:ls - tit - the- trench. z. That the King of Sardinia should iMinediately dismiss all the auxiliary troops of the EMpeior. 3. That the king should order the Corrimander-iri- Chief in: the Ausirian Army to quit the whole of his dominions;_ and that it Bt A oil Ey, in the course of a.week, did not think proper to wittidraw,: the King should join his forces to tnose Qt BooNn? AR7g , in Order to compel him. BUOt4APART2 1. ekes nu) the sligriteWrnentloll of the two last articles ; but for this; we shall soon sev that he has many excellent r e a s ons. - - While all this was pa,sing betweed BooNAI , ARiT and General COLL!, BEAULIEU was rapidly march- ing towards M.ondovi. He had taken the road to IN.zza de la Paitiei at the head of tiftecti . thousand men. He was still a day's march from Mondovi, wlion he 'was met by an express - which the Ik.4afg4is GIIIRARDINI, Imperial Minister it the Court of had secretly dispatched. By this Messenger; he informed 'him of every thing that Was* trausaditig'betWeen BUONAtAR,TE and the Kittg of Sardinia. -BEAULIEU instantly halted, and turned his thoughts to the meascnes'nece6Sary to be taken in so delicAe a crisis.. The sudd'en and unexpeaed change of the King of Sardinia was the most fatal blow that the Austrian Army had ever received. VV:liit could be done to mitigate its effect ? BEAULIEU determined upon an . operation of the most prompt and dating nature: it was, to possess himself' at once of the three citadels of Aiexandria, Tortoni, and Yalenia. These three foittresses; at no great dislatice from one another, formed' a . kind of triangle; and ; by occupying them, BEAULIEU would be enabled to prevent the French army from approaching.the Po, while he secured a position where he might wait fOr a reinforcetnents . . . from the Emperor, and resume offensive operations' in the . South. „Unfortunately, hi's plan did not suc ceed; and EF.Aut.tEu futind hitthclf in a state of the tnOst. dreadful .embarrassrnent, from which thing could have relieved him but mind equally fist„ and . fertile in expedients. Two regiinents 'ffussars wetc'app'oinfed carry Alexandria' by a coup-de-plait). They. pro ceeded.by forced maiches. 'Valencia'. was -to be seized , with equal expedit'iod, by a regiment of Neapolitan cavalry. , With re:,rd to Tortona, the *'Two kustrian Ofiieers, who were then at C.beraka with a te - w auxiliary . eordpaniCs, and who att,:rwards efFetted a s fi junaion with BE a:o I.: Eu, 'deposed; tipo'n oai), that these • i l cannon were not fired at the French, but mere l y as s i g n als to let thein understand that the garrison was AtiOUt to evacuate .- : , • 1 the place! ' .. ■''{